LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person is accused of stabbing a Metro police officer whereas the officer was trying to arrest him, the 8 Information Now Investigators have discovered.
Kenta Taylor, 20, faces expenses of tried homicide and resisting a public officer, information mentioned. The cost is enhanced as a result of the incident concerned a primary responder.
On Feb. 8, officers responded to a name about an individual lighting tents on hearth close to Van Buren Avenue and F Road within the Historic Westside. A witness relayed an outline of the suspect to a responding officer who then discovered the person, recognized as Taylor, close by, police mentioned.
Taylor ran from the officer however fell after leaping over a wall, police mentioned. Whereas the officer was trying to take Taylor into custody, Taylor allegedly grabbed a screwdriver and stabbed the officer within the neck and hand, paperwork mentioned.
Police described the screwdriver as six inches lengthy. After the stabbing, the officer believed Taylor had bitten him, paperwork mentioned.
The officer then deployed his digital management system on Taylor, however it had no impact, police mentioned. A number of minutes later, one other officer shot Taylor with a non-lethal system and a police canine bit his arm.
The officer was handled for his accidents and launched from the hospital within the hours after the stabbing, a spokesperson mentioned.
Throughout Taylor’s possible trigger listening to a day after his arrest, Las Vegas Justice Court docket Professional Temp Decide Lucinda Coumou set bail at $100,000. A preliminary listening to was scheduled for Feb. 25.
The incident was not reported till the 8 Information Now Investigators filed a information request final week. It occurred days after one other man shot and killed a North Las Vegas police officer responding to a report of an individual with a gun.
